@beefriendlybrum
Birmingham residents who care about our pollinator pals 🐝 Share ideas about helpful action, both personally & collectively, to influence local people & policy and decrease pesticide use to save the planet we did this: https://bit.ly/BeeFriendlyBrum1
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social Is asking you as EDUCATORS watch this film
🚨 Reset the climate conversation in your school
🏫 Host a screening of the National Emergency Briefing for Schools Teachers
🔗 Register your interest now forms.gle/W2ejtpKe9Env...
At our campaigns meeting tonight we're in person at @inthewarehouse.bsky.social in Digbeth and doing our final planning for our free Clothes Swap & Panel Discussion on Saturday. Come and join us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-cloth...
Let’s work together for a better Brum
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@birminghamfoe.bsky.social want to work with you and the local election candidates to ensure that our stories are heard.
You can share your thoughts about some of the key issues in Birmingham with this short questionnaire
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forms.gle/i6S6g72NoQAs...
odd, isn't it, how many of the changes made by the Trump administration increase the chances of death and disease?
But what if there's more to life than honey?
![Bayer offers $7.25bn to settle weedkiller cancer claims
[Image: Bottles of Roundup weed and grass killer are stacked at a Costco Wholesale store on March 11, 2025 in San Diego, California]
17 February 2026
Bayer, the German bio-tech giant, has proposed paying $7.25bn (£5.35bn) to definitively resolve a legal battle in the US over whether its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer.
The possible settlement is part of a broader push to secure closure over the claims, which have weighed on the company since it bought Monsanto, the American-maker of the widely used but controversial herbicide.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7473vyxgqpo](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gyis7zqvym6srf7a3cvqcckb/bafkreigzoz37kinz25hx7yjpm4whuf7vf77u4do5j5bnnfvwrq2e5vffxe)
Bayer offers $7.25bn to settle weedkiller cancer claims [Image: Bottles of Roundup weed and grass killer are stacked at a Costco Wholesale store on March 11, 2025 in San Diego, California] 17 February 2026 Bayer, the German bio-tech giant, has proposed paying $7.25bn (£5.35bn) to definitively resolve a legal battle in the US over whether its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The possible settlement is part of a broader push to secure closure over the claims, which have weighed on the company since it bought Monsanto, the American-maker of the widely used but controversial herbicide. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7473vyxgqpo
THE WHITE HOUSE PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS PROMOTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE BY ENSURING AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF ELEMENTAL PHOSPHORUS AND GLYPHOSATE-BASED HERBICIDES Executive Orders February 18, 2026 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/
17 Feb 2026: Bayer offers $7.25bn to settle tens of thousands of claims that its glyphosate containing weedkiller causes cancer (especially non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
18 Feb 2026: Donald Trump signs an executive order to increase domestic production of glyphosate-based herbicides.
#ThisIsAmerica
In this long-term study, glyphosate
Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
June 20, 2025
International Study Reveals Glyphosate Weed Killers Cause Multiple Types of Cancer
publichealth.gmu.edu/news/2025-06...
I've taken action for our wild places!
The Prime Minister is considering weakening environmental protections at a time when nature is already in serious crisis. Speak up today.
action.rspb.org.uk/page/186397/...
Bayer agrees to pay $7.25bn to settle Roundup weedkiller cancer lawsuits
Thousands of lawsuits accuse the agrochemical maker of failing to warn people that its glyphosate-containing weedkiller could cause cancer.
This is today, no appointments necessary, just come along and swap seeds you don't needz
make a commitment to grow different crops and share the produce?
![[event flyer with colourful vegetables and people around text in the middle] FAFFS. FREE AND FAIR FOOD SHARING SCHEME
CRO SHO
BRUM
THE FAFFS"-FREE AND FAIR FOOD SHARING SCHEME-AIMS TO BUILD A MOVEMENT OF SMALL, LOCAL GROUPS OF PEOPLE, GROWING AND SHARING FOOD IN THEIR GARDENS.
COME TO OUR SEED SWAP!
SATURDAY 14TH FEB
12PM TO 3PM
BALSALL HEATH SECOND SATURDAY. THE OLD PRINT WORKS 498-506 MOSELEY RD, BALSALL HEATH, B12 9AH
NO NEED TO BOOK!
TO LEARN MORE CONTACT
LAURA: 07552638263
LOUISE: 07854 328012
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[event flyer with colourful vegetables and people around text in the middle] FAFFS. FREE AND FAIR FOOD SHARING SCHEME CRO SHO BRUM THE FAFFS"-FREE AND FAIR FOOD SHARING SCHEME-AIMS TO BUILD A MOVEMENT OF SMALL, LOCAL GROUPS OF PEOPLE, GROWING AND SHARING FOOD IN THEIR GARDENS. COME TO OUR SEED SWAP! SATURDAY 14TH FEB 12PM TO 3PM BALSALL HEATH SECOND SATURDAY. THE OLD PRINT WORKS 498-506 MOSELEY RD, BALSALL HEATH, B12 9AH NO NEED TO BOOK! TO LEARN MORE CONTACT LAURA: 07552638263 LOUISE: 07854 328012 GROWING FOOD AND COMMUNITY, TOGETHER
Growing food and community, together 💚
FAFFS (free and fair food sharing scheme) aims to build a movement of small, local groups of people, growing and sharing food in their gardens.
Come to our seed swap!
Saturday 14th Feb
12pm to 3pm
#BrumTogether
[event flyer with colourful vegetables and people around text in the middle] FAFFS. FREE AND FAIR FOOD SHARING SCHEME CRO SHO BRUM THE FAFFS"-FREE AND FAIR FOOD SHARING SCHEME-AIMS TO BUILD A MOVEMENT OF SMALL, LOCAL GROUPS OF PEOPLE, GROWING AND SHARING FOOD IN THEIR GARDENS. COME TO OUR SEED SWAP! SATURDAY 14TH FEB 12PM TO 3PM BALSALL HEATH SECOND SATURDAY. THE OLD PRINT WORKS 498-506 MOSELEY RD, BALSALL HEATH, B12 9AH NO NEED TO BOOK! TO LEARN MORE CONTACT LAURA: 07552638263 LOUISE: 07854 328012 GROWING FOOD AND COMMUNITY, TOGETHER
Growing food and community, together 💚
FAFFS (free and fair food sharing scheme) aims to build a movement of small, local groups of people, growing and sharing food in their gardens.
Come to our seed swap!
Saturday 14th Feb
12pm to 3pm
#BrumTogether
Another great thread from Tom Cox. I love moths - their names are wonderful too, like little incantations.
16:18 11 Feb 💙
Free Clothes Swap & panel talk on Fast Fashion, Sat 7th March at
@inthewarehouse.bsky.social in Digbeth.
If you're having a spring clean of your wardrobe do bring wearable items. Or come along and see what you find.
Clothes Swap starts 11:30am & panel at 2:30pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-cloth...
Calling all Friends of Park groups in #Birmingham.
@mybcu.bsky.social is looking to partner on a research project to co-design parks with teenage girls and shape more inclusive green spaces.
Interested in taking part?
Email Zeinab.Hashem@mail.b...
Birmingham isn't just concrete - it has a green heart. 🌳💚
We’re so proud to share this short film celebrating the incredible volunteers who help to keep our city’s parks and open spaces thriving.
Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Brum #Birmingham #CommunityPower #Volunteer
Doing the Big Garden Birdwatch and trying to work out how many long tailed tits to log here @rspb.bsky.social?
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
Long-tailed Tits are so sweet and speedy and sociable ❤️
#BigGardenWatch
There should be more competitiveness between counties in the @rspb.bsky.social's Big Garden Birdwatch
Also maybe a participation count by percentage not just numbers?
should get the schools involved with this one, lots of young people use the 50 - mostly on Facebook and Instagram if not here - hopefully they've all stopped using X
📣 No 50 users - please sign the petition ✍️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Top counties 1 Yorkshire, West Riding 1,955 2 Lancashire 1,940 3 Kent 1,362 4 Hampshire 1,220 5 Surrey 1,208 6 Essex 1,197 Surrey have just overtaken Essex. but all the others are holding their positions
Top birds on the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch at midday Saturday January 2026 1. House Sparrow 113,713 2. Blue Tit 104,986 3. Starling 77,463 4 Woodpigeon 66,231 5 Great Tit 54,363 6 Blackbird 50,486 lots of movement in the ranks below 2nd,
Here are the standings, midday on the middle day of the RSPB's #BigGardenBirdwatch 2026
Top bird: House Sparrow in the lead, Blue Tit making a good show but third place murmurs from Starling
Top contributors: Yorkshire and Lancashire with a 21C War of the Roses
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Doing the Big Garden Birdwatch and trying to work out how many long tailed tits to log here @rspb.bsky.social?
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
The Fruit and Nut Village movement brings the farm to the city, urban orchards in pocket parks.
Involving the community in growing food on our doorstep.
One day they turned up on my street with free fruit trees, lifted slabs, planted
keeping English traditions alive - wassailing to wake the trees
s/s from the Birmingham Brewing Company About Us page Fuelled By Renewable Energy As part of our commitment to brewing a positive impact in the community, all of our operations in the brewery and taproom are fuelled by 100% renewable sources such as wind and solar power. We also make sure that we don’t leave any negative impact with the waste we produce either. Our brewing waste is collected by Park Farm in Frankley and is used as livestock feed, while all of our packaging and non-brewing waste is recycled. https://www.birminghambrewingcompany.co.uk/about-birmingham-brewing-company/
"Our brewing waste is collected by Park Farm in Frankley and is used as livestock feed"
So not just beer that is tasty, vegan and gluten-free but also recycling process waste.
Maybe if they get bigger they will start offering compost too? Will pass on the query.
www.birminghambrewingcompany.co.uk/
Fruit & Nut Village is an excellent charity based in Birmingham. They are growing orchards & perennial food spaces, and work with local communities to "develop a range of edible landscapes".
They currently manage around 70-80 growing spaces in total, across Balsall Heath, Druids Heath and Stirchley.
WASSAIL! Fruit and Nut Village's Stirchley Wassail 2026!
Back at Birmingham Brewing Co. for 2026 with music, poetry, + dance from 3PM, as well as stalls from charities around Birmingham.
The procession to wake the trees will be later that evening. Bring a light + noisemaker + warm clothes + footwear
This kind of thing isn't normal, surely?
Is this temperature change because the polar vortex is so unstable now?
#ClimateActionNow #UKsnow #UKweather
